What my sports dietitian actually changed

Started 1 May 2025 · 24 replies · 247 hearts · read 2.2k times

TabbyMargate, UK · 1 May 2025

about a year ago

What my sports dietitian actually changed — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

Practical question, and possibly a silly one.

I have written down what has actually happened, in order, because I find that more useful than my summary of it.

I have read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

Not looking for a plan. Just company and whatever anyone has found.

MaryamBirmingham, UK

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.

HarriSwansea, UK

What the opening post described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

14me too 8

TacitaRome, IT

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

I will leave this open for a few more days and then add it to the circle's resources, because the answers here are better than anything I would have written.

PolaGdańsk, PL

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

Have you got anyone who can be with you when you do it? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt silly asking.

9me too 5

RohanPune, IN

The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.

BronLincoln, UK

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

EdwynNewcastle, UK

Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

ClémenceNantes, FR

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

OndineLausanne, CH

#10

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

NolanHalifax, CA

#11

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

For what it is worth, the trial data on this is thinner than the confidence of the internet would suggest. Worth knowing when you read the posts.

BoWhitby, UK

#12

It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.

RunaAarhus, DK

#13

I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.

7me too 7

BaySt Ives, UK

#14

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

MaritGroningen, NL

#15

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

TressaSt Austell, UK

#16

I am the person who had the frightening version of this. I went in, it was investigated, and it was not what anyone feared. Going in is the whole of my advice.

RonanBelfast, NI

#17

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

11me too 3

NadineLyon, FR

#18

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

BodilÅlesund, NO

#19

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

11me too 1

BertrandToulouse, FR

#20

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

RinManchester, UK

#21

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

13me too 4

RufusGuildford, UK

#22

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

#23

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

I want to slow this down a little. There are four different answers flying about and they are all somebody's real experience, which makes them true and not necessarily relevant to the person who asked.

ClemmieNorwich, UK

#24

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.